RIVERSIDE, CA—Ari Trimble notched her second career victory as she led Utah Valley University to a decisive win at the UC Riverside Invitational on Saturday morning. The Wolverine women won both the invitational and open team titles while the men's team was second in the invite and third in the open.
Trimble won the 18-team, 172-athlete invite with a time of 20:03.04 with
Morgan Nokes, the reigning WAC Runner of the Week, coming in second in 20:13.6.
Anna Martin (20:21.9) raced across the finish line in fifth, while
Lydia Beus (20:23.7) and
Abbie Fuhriman (20:24.8) were seventh and eighth, respectively.
The five scores gave the Wolverines 20 points with Long Beach State coming in second with 103 points. UVU had five of the top eight finishers, and with
Oakley Olson's 11th-place result in 20:33.5, the Wolverines had six of the top 11.
In the women's open 5K race, Utah Valley again won big, scoring 30 points while Pomona-Pitzer came in second with 101 points. The open had 21 team scores and 237 individuals competing.
Emily Morden (17:21.8) led the squad with a second-place finish while
Abby Linford (17:51.5) took third.
Caila Odekirk (18:04.1) finished sixth,
Sophia Biesinger (18:07.5) took eighth, and
Addison Pettingill (18:14.9) was 11th.
The men's 8K invite was won by recent UVU graduate
Habtamu Cheney, who ran unattached.
Mo Guled was the top UVU finisher with a 10th-place result in 24:00.0.
Austin Hone (24:07.5) came in 15th,
Abdulsalam Farah (24:13.7) took 21st,
Joel Mendez (24:18.7) was 27th, and
Gilbert Olivas (24:33.3) came in 45th to round out the team scoring. The race had 22 teams and 215 competitors.
The men's 8K open featured 232 runners and 19 scoring teams with
Pierce Vittone leading Utah Valley with a second-place finish in 25:01.6. The other four to score team points for UVU were:
Seth Thompson (10th, 25:15.1),
Mack Waite (20th, 25:39.6),
Bridger McCurdy (47th, 26:05.6), and Calem Ream (68th, 26:27.6).
The Wolverines will be off next week before heading to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for the Paul Short Run at Lehigh University on Saturday, Sept. 30.
